Wireless communication terminal apparatus, wireless communication base station apparatus, and modulation method

Abstract

A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even in a case of performing a wideband transmission using only a downstream line, CCE assignment can be flexibly performed without any collisions of ACK and NACK signals among a plurality of unit bands. In a wireless communication terminal apparatus ( 200 ) using a plurality of downstream unit bands to perform communications, a PDCCH receiving unit ( 207 ) blind-decodes CCE in a search space of the plurality of downstream unit bands, thereby acquiring resource assignment information of downstream line data addressed to the wireless communication terminal apparatus ( 200 ), and a modulating unit ( 209 ) modulates a response signal, which is responsive to the downstream line data in particular downstream unit bands, based on a modulation scheme in which the number of modulation multi-values corresponds to the number of those particular ones of the plurality of downstream unit bands in which the resource assignment information addressed to the wireless communication terminal apparatus ( 200 ) is assigned to CCE of the same CCE number.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A radio communication terminal apparatus comprising:
 at least one processor comprising: 
 a receiving section that receives resource allocation information of downlink data directed to the radio communication terminal apparatus, the resource allocation information being arranged in a plurality of downlink component bands set in the radio communication terminal apparatus, each of the plurality of downlink component bands including a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel; and 
 a transmitting section that transmits a response signal to the downlink data using uplink resources in one uplink component band corresponding to control channel element (CCE) numbers of CCEs in which the resource allocation information is arranged in the plurality of downlink component bands, the one uplink component band set in the radio communication terminal apparatus being one of a plurality of uplink component bands, each of the plurality of uplink component bands including an uplink data channel in a center of the band and including uplink control channels at both ends of the band, 
 wherein the transmitting section modulates, based on a modulation scheme of an M-ary modulation value corresponding to the number of specific downlink component bands in which the resource allocation information directed to the radio communication terminal apparatus is allocated to CCEs of the same CCE number out of the plurality of downlink component bands, the response signal to the downlink data in the specific downlink component bands. 
 
     
     
       2. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the same uplink resources in the one uplink component band are associated with the same CCE number in the plurality of downlink component bands. 
     
     
       3. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transmitting section modulates the response signal based on M-ary modulation value 2 m  corresponding to the number of specific downlink component bands m. 
     
     
       4. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transmitting section assumes the M-ary modulation value corresponding to QPSK to be an upper limit of the M-ary modulation value corresponding to the number of specific downlink component bands. 
     
     
       5. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor further includes a control section that causes transmission power of the response signal when the transmitting section uses QPSK to be greater than transmission power of the response signal when the transmitting section uses BPSK. 
     
     
       6. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transmitting section modulates response signals to the downlink data received in each of the plurality of downlink component bands, using signal points associated with band numbers of the plurality of downlink component bands. 
     
     
       7. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein when using BPSK, the transmitting section arranges, of the plurality of downlink component bands, the response signals of downlink component bands whose band numbers are odd-numbered at signal points on the I-axis and the response signals of downlink component bands whose band numbers are even-numbered at signal points on the Q-axis. 
     
     
       8. The radio communication terminal apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transmitting section arranges, of the plurality of downlink component bands, the response signals of downlink component bands whose band numbers are even-numbered at signal points on the I-axis and the response signals of downlink component bands whose band numbers are odd-numbered at signal points on the Q-axis. 
     
     
       9. A radio communication base station apparatus comprising:
 at least one processor comprising: 
 an arrangement section that arranges resource allocation information of downlink data directed to a radio communication terminal apparatus in control channel elements (CCEs) in a plurality of downlink component bands set in the radio communication terminal apparatus, each of the plurality of downlink component bands including a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel; and 
 a receiving section that receives a response signal to the downlink data transmitted from the radio communication terminal apparatus using uplink resources in one uplink component band corresponding to CCE numbers of the CCEs, the one uplink component band set in the radio communication terminal apparatus being one of a plurality of uplink component bands, each of the plurality of uplink component bands including an uplink data in a center of the band and including uplink control channels at both ends of the band, 
 wherein the radio communication terminal apparatus modulates, based on a modulation scheme of an M-ary modulation value corresponding to the number of specific downlink component bands in which the resource allocation information directed to the radio communication terminal apparatus is allocated to CCEs of the same CCE number out of the plurality of downlink component bands, the response signal to the downlink data in the specific downlink component bands. 
 
     
     
       10. A response signal transmission method performed by a radio communication terminal apparatus, the response signal transmission method comprising:
 receiving resource allocation information of downlink data directed to the radio communication terminal apparatus, the resource allocation information being arranged in a plurality of downlink component bands set in the radio communication terminal apparatus, each of the plurality of downlink component bands including a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel; and 
 transmitting a response signal to the downlink data using uplink resources in one uplink component band corresponding to control channel element (CCE) numbers of CCEs in which the resource allocation information is arranged in the plurality of downlink component bands, the one uplink component band set in the radio communication terminal apparatus being one of a plurality of uplink component bands, each of the plurality of uplink component bands including an uplink data in a center of the band and including uplink control channels at both ends of the band, 
 wherein the radio communication terminal apparatus modulates, based on a modulation scheme of an M-ary modulation value corresponding to the number of specific downlink component bands in which the resource allocation information directed to the radio communication terminal apparatus is allocated to CCEs of the same CCE number out of the plurality of downlink component bands, the response signal to the downlink data in the specific downlink component bands.